Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins’ legendary memoir–wild tales of his life and occasions, each at residence and across the globe.

Tom Robbins’ heat, smart, and splendidly bizarre novels—together with Nonetheless Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Fragrance, and Fierce Invalids House From Scorching Climates—present an entryway into the frontier of his singular creativeness. Madcap however honest, pulsating with robust social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have launched numerous readers to pure born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads.

In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching collectively tales of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures —informed in his distinctive voice that mixes the candy and sly, the religious and earthy. The grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins would develop into over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air power weatherman, a radio dj, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, main a life as unlikely, magical, and weird as these of his quixotic characters.

Robbins gives intimate snapshots of Appalachia in the course of the Nice Despair, the West Coast in the course of the Sixties psychedelic revolution, worldwide roving earlier than homeland safety monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it nonetheless relied on timber. Written with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which he’s identified, Tibetan Peach Pie is an invite into the non-public world of a literary legend.